The Characteristics Of Leadership In The Lord Of The Flies

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Leadership, the ability that people tend to have that allows them guides, directs, or controls a group it has been around for centuries, and nowadays having someone to depend on through a time of crisis or just be in charge of a selection of people is a normal thing that we kind of expect, and it makes sense, those who are qualified enough should be the ones to help us through something tragic. But what if all of a sudden a group of people got lost without a leader and none of them were technically “qualified” enough to lead the group, what would they do? Well they would most likely grab the person that is the most qualified out of all of them. Which is right where the children in The Lord of the Flies fall and they seem to have only four…show more content…The characters must be able to either have more than one specific strength or back it up with a legitimate ability than can make them worthy enough to be considered “lord of the flies”. Ralph surprisingly is the one that fits this criteria, he’s smart but not a genius and makes up for this by being able to stand up for himself, he’s civilized but he can snap and become a savage like the others however that “snap” usually occurs when he’s pushed enough and it is a rarity in the book, and he wants to see the people survive and advance and while he may not be as strong and as skilled with a spear as Jack and his hunters remember that being that he scared off the boar by hitting it directly in the nose with his spear, he could become a better hunter than even Jack while still being able to think things through properly. This choice is a matter of process of elimination, get rid of the ones who would fail the most at being chief and you end up with the one who is technically the best chief, and that should be enough to prove that Ralph is the best choice for those children… at least until Ralph’s father shows up to save them… that is going to happen right?.....

how they have been taught by society, they turn into a disaster, breaking up into separate groups, having celebrations to hunt pig, and killing each other. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding, inspired by The Coral Island and Paradise Lost, shows the true nature of human beings in a society created by children.
The novel, Lord of the Flies, comes from William Golding’s personal experiences. In 1953, Golding asked his wife, Ann, if she thought it would be a good idea if he wrote a book about the

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Lord of the Flies had 4 main characters: Ralph, Simon, Jacky, and Piggy. All of the boys had a profound impact on the book but one boy was very intense and amazing. That boy was Simon.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Simon was the kind of person who kept to himself and looked at the world from a different point of view. His disease made him take life much more seriously than the rest of the group. The ironic thing about this is that even though

Lord of the Flies was published in 1954 by William Golding. Today Lord of the Flies is a well known literary criticism. Many schools require their students to read Lord of the Flies because of the literary criticisms in the book. In this paper three themes or literary criticisms are talked about: good vs. evil, symbolism of characters, and maturity of characters.
Another topic in Golding's Lord of the Flies is the battle of good vs. evil. Everything seems to start out just fine on the island; the

In 1952, Golding wrote a classic novel, Lord of the Flies and shows people are born evil. In this novel William Golding proves his point in writing this novel, while Jean Jacques Rousseau thinks the opposite of Golding. Rousseau thinks that people are born naturally good and pure, but society is what makes and turns some into evil. The novel Lord of the Flies starts out with a planes crashing and young boys being the only ones to survive. They are to start their own “government and rules” and the

different opinions on how society corrupts man. For example William Golding says “the inherent evil of individuals required the constraints of society in order for social order to be maintained”. He uses this statement as a guideline for his book Lord of the Flies. But Jean- Jacques Rousseau thinks differently. He says, “all individuals are naturally good, but that corruption is born from living in the unnatural state created by society”.I believe that Golding’s is correct from his statement.
In Rousseau’s

William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel, expressing that in every person, there is a hidden potential to evil. The young boys, who are stranded on an island in William Golding’s novel, become proof of this through symbolism such as the conch, the beast, and the fire. Lord of the Flies shows how easy it was for these boys to go from civilized to savage like, and at times even barbaric creatures. The boys started good, when Ralph who is a symbol for good was the leader,

The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a popular novel that deals with many themes. The theme I will talk about is how humans and human nature can easily be corrupted by surrounding influences and themselves. Simon is corrupted by the natural environment and the nature of people around him. In contrast, there is Jack who was only corrupted by his obsessions. Also, Ralph became morally corrupted after a combination of spending time with Jack’s group and being by himself. The Lord of the

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Think to yourself how it would fell if your childhood were to be totally changed by a tragic incident. In which you got trapped on an island away from any civilization. In "Lord of the flies" William Golding shows just how terrifying and symbolic that this can be. There are many different objects in the book that one can easily make out to signify things in society. Among the symbols were the conch shell, their personality traits, and their clothing
The Conch is a symbol

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William Golding uses much symbolism in his novel, The Lord of the Flies, to help readers gain a greater understanding of his message. He uses symbolism in three important areas: objects that have symbolic value as references to ideas, characters that symbolize important historical and religious people, and the setting which frames the conflicts on the island in comparison to the whole world. Objects are the first part of the story that are symbolic.
Many objects in The

is a follower, not a leader. He believes and trusts what Ralph, his leader, says. That’s why he mentions that the beast could be inside all of them once, and immediately discards that because Ralph doesn’t think so. His confrontation with the Lord of the Flies is the only way he can liberate that information to himself. The encounter begins with “Even if he shut his eyes the sow’s head still remained like an after-image.” This represents the beginning of the fixation Simon is having on the head, thinking